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Article L512-3 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons terminates, on its own initiative or at the request of the administrative authority, the benefit of subsidiary protection when the circumstances which justified the granting of this protection have ceased to exist or have undergone a sufficiently significant and lasting change so that it is no longer required.
The Office will also terminate subsidiary protection at any time, on its own initiative or at the request of the administrative authority, in the following cases:
1° The beneficiary of subsidiary protection should have been excluded from this protection for one of the reasons provided for in article L. 512-2;
2° The decision to grant subsidiary protection was the result of fraud;
3° The beneficiary of subsidiary protection must, as a result of acts committed after the protection was granted, be excluded from it on one of the grounds provided for in article L. 512-2.
By way of derogation from the first paragraph, subsidiary protection is maintained when its beneficiary justifies compelling reasons relating to previous serious harm for refusing to avail himself of the protection of his country.

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Article L512-3


L’Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides met fin, de sa propre initiative ou à la demande de l’autorité administrative, au bénéfice de la protection subsidiaire lorsque les circonstances ayant justifié l’octroi de cette protection ont cessé d’exister ou ont connu un changement suffisamment significatif et durable pour que celle-ci ne soit plus requise.
L’office met également fin à tout moment, de sa propre initiative ou à la demande de l’autorité administrative, au bénéfice de la protection subsidiaire dans les cas suivants :
1° Le bénéficiaire de la protection subsidiaire aurait dû être exclu de cette protection pour l’un des motifs prévus à l’article L. 512-2 ;
2° La décision d’octroi de la protection subsidiaire a résulté d’une fraude ;
3° Le bénéficiaire de la protection subsidiaire doit, à raison de faits commis après l’octroi de la protection, en être exclu pour l’un des motifs prévus à l’article L. 512-2.
Par dérogation au premier alinéa, la protection subsidiaire est maintenue lorsque son bénéficiaire justifie de raisons impérieuses tenant à des atteintes graves antérieures pour refuser de se réclamer de la protection de son pays.

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